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As the U.S. Senate race between Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren winds down, both candidates are making their final pitches to voters through advertising and old fashioned, in-person campaigning.
(The Associated Press)

In the latest and presumably last radio ads of the 2012 Massachusetts Senate race, Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown returns to his message-based approach while Democrat Elizabeth Warren takes aim at the junior senator for "ducking" the last debate scheduled to take place this week.

Brown released two radio ads on Thursday as he kicked off a bus tour of eastern Massachusetts towns and cities. The first ad is the audio track from his "People over Party" TV ad released on Wednesday that focuses on bipartisanship, while the second features former Democratic Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, who endorsed Brown and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney back in April.

Flynn, who served as mayor of Boston from 1984 to 1993, talks up Brown's ability to work across the aisle, a message the senator has pushed as polling increasingly shows Bay State citizens are uncomfortable with the possibility of a Republican-controlled U.S. Senate.

"You only get things done by working across the aisle. Scott Brown is a person that you can work with," Flynn says in the ad. "I mean, I've been involved in politics for almost 50 years. That's the name of the game, electing people you can trust. I think that person really is Scott Brown."

Warren and Democrats have accused Brown of siding with his party on the important votes, while racking up bipartisan points on less important issues.

Warren, who repeated her promise to be a fighter for the middle class in her closing TV ad, goes straight for her competition on the radio.

"Scott Brown backed out of his final debate with Elizabeth Warren. Rather than discuss the issues, he had to grab a bus," the announcer says in Warren's ad. "With his record, you can’t blame him for hitting the road. On Scott Brown’s bus, there isn’t a seat for equal pay. Scott Brown voted against it."

The ad goes on to criticize Brown for his record on women's issues, although not all of the topics mentioned were seen as such by Brown.

The ad says "There’s no health insurance for birth control. Scott Brown voted to allow employers to deny coverage," referencing the vote in support of the Blunt Amendment to the president's Affordable Care Act. At the time, Brown said he felt the bill, which would have allowed any employer or insurer to deny health insurance coverage for any procedure or prescription which conflicted with their religious or moral beliefs, was a matter of "religious liberty."

The ad also repeats Warren's criticism of Brown for voting against the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan.

"And the only chance he had, Scott Brown voted against a pro-choice Supreme Court justice," the ad says. "Scott Brown doesn’t want you to know where he’s headed. He could give Republicans control of the Senate."

In the first Senate debate, Brown said that he didn't vote to confirm Kagan because "a judge has to have, obviously, good judicial character, has to have a good temperament and actually has to have some courtroom or judicial experience."

This weekend, The Republican/MassLive.com will report on a new poll conducted by Western New England University's Polling Institute about public opinion regarding the Senate and presidential races as well as the several ballot initiatives that voters will decide on Tuesday.